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4 year old nearly drowns on a Disney Cruise whose fault is it?

(11:00 a.m. EST) -- A 4-year-old boy nearly drowned just hours after getting on Disney Fantasy on Saturday, March 30. The boy is receiving medical treatment at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children.

Rena Langley, a spokeswoman for Disney Cruise Line, confirmed the incident, which occurred while the ship was still in port at Port Canaveral, for Cruise Critic.

"On Saturday afternoon, our medical personnel responded when a child was
unresponsive at one of the pools on the Disney Fantasy. The child was
quickly transported to the hospital."

According to the Orlando Sentinel,
Brevard Country rescue workers and Port Canaveral police responded to
the ship at about 3:30 p.m. and found the boy "in distress." He was
initially taken to Cape Canaveral Hospital, but then flown to Arnold
Palmer Hospital in Orlando.

Disney confirmed the boy is still alive, but neither the cruise line nor
Arnold Palmer Hospital would provide an update on his condition for
privacy reasons.

I would want to know where the parents were. I don't let my son in a pool without me in it, and he can swim not well but he can swim and he is 5. It is kind of annoying to me that this article is blaming Disney Cruise, what do you think?

On the Disney ships the childcare is NOT offered in water areas. There is nothing in place where a parent would drop their child off at the pool. In the pool areas the only person responsible for your child is you. This incident happened on embarkation day, the ship was still in port. Likely the whole family was excited and not as vigilant as they should have been. I feel bad for them, but the only people "at fault," if you want to call it that, are the parents.

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